Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there.

Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Civilize The Mind, But Make Savage The Body.

Teachers open doors, but you must enter by yourself.

If you are in the business of revenge, then you better dig two graves.

He who is afraid of suffering, is already suffering fear. Out of fear, true creativity is blocked.

You have two lives the second one begins when you realize you only have one

Behind an able man there are always other able men.

Misfortune comes to all men.

Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.

Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

Take care of your body

Ridiculous, " he said breathlessly. "You ought to give up detecting and try fantasy writing.

It's like smoking compost through a raccoon.

I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious. Told to Valentine Bargmann.

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

The desire to win is born in most of us. The will to win is a matter of training. The manner of winning is a matter of honour.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.